Example sentences of "[noun] go and [vb infin] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have told me you had a ticket to Miami to go and shoot herself and Jimmy Zaidie but you cancelled it , although I know you did go to Miami subsequently ( around Christmas time 1986 ) to carry out your threat . ’ |
| 2 | He told the troops to go and scratch themselves somewhere else . |
| 3 | And because we 'd found self-esteem , we had the courage to go and sell ourselves successfully to employers . |
| 4 | His suggestion that one is always ‘ at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other community , or to agree with others to begin a new one … in any part of the world , they can find free and unpossessed ’ has been ridiculed , and is even less plausible now than when he made it . |
| 5 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 6 | She made Dinah go and unlace herself , put on a cotton wrapper she had lately bought , and stay near her bed till the pains came , but meantime to walk up and down . |
| 7 | Jesus told the leper to go and show himself to the priest and make an offering for his healing . |